The Bottle Rockets

New Year’s Eve with plenty of champagne and oliebollen (deep-fried pieces of dough with apples and raisins). The day before the celebrations begin plenty of fireworks go on sale so you can be sure to hear a lot of blasts and see plenty of colorful rockets exploding in the sky. At midnight people head out into the streets or to the bars, which at this time usually open at midnight. The countdown to the New…

The year is 1961 and the U.S. is six years deep in a space race with the Soviet Union to show off to each other who has the best air and space capabilities. President Kennedy gives a speech saying that we will go to the moon “not because it is easy, but because it is hard” (Engle). Less than a decade later, on July 20th, 1969 at 20:17:40 UTC, the Apollo 13 mission put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon (“Theories”). Ever since that day the people have doubted the fact that we ever put…

Part B1: Characteristics of the wine country/ -area Tuscany alongside Piemont and Venice is one of the three Italian luxurious wine regions in the entire “Il Calcio”(Italy) and one of the most legendary in the entire world. Figure 1: Vineyards and geographical wine areas in Tuscany region. Giving the fact that Italy is about 1000 km long from North to South , it`s not easy to describe the condition of the soil. Alps and Apennines cut the country into geographical segments. Tuscan area…

individual things but the share abundance of things is what reflected the spread of mass manufacturing and the growing American consumer culture. In 1962 Warhol painted “Coca-Cola [4]”. This painting is of a Coca-Cola bottle that is bigger than the viewer. This painting of a coke bottle is globally recognized because no matter who you were you drink coke, everyone from movie stars to poor people in the streets drink coke. With this one painting Andy Warhol successfully translates globalism…

Question 2: Rocket Summer Answer: This first chapter has a lot of literary elements that allow the reader recognizes a tone. There are a several Similes, Metaphors and Personification, and some people might see this as a chapter made entirely out of these devices. To name a few; “...The panes blind with frost.” This one uses personification to give the reader the clue that the weather is freezing temperatures and cold. This leaves us with either a playful tone, since we can assume that…

rouge victim to the majority when he made the choice to show civility for Mars rather than show disrespect like his crew did. In this chapter when him and his crew arrived the men threw a party and got drunk. One of the men started to drop his empty bottles into a canal. This caused Spender to lose his temper and punch the man. Captain Wilder laters asks Spender why he did this. Spender responds by saying “I don’t know. I was ashamed. Of Biggs and us and the noise. Christ, what a spectacle.’…

a confined space that withheld McCandless from the rest of the world. This bus is the heart of Chris’s isolation and harbored his death. Similarly, in The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury uses the setting of outer space to show the same idea. In “The Rocket Man” as Doug’s mother explains her and her husband’s long distance relationship, she tells Doug,“When he went off into space ten years ago, I said to myself, ‘He’s dead,’ Or as good as dead. So think of him dead. And when he comes back, three or…

Introduction The space hotel is named Caelum, which is the Latin term for space, universe, and heaven. This name represents the future of luxurious travel, taking humans into outer space on an amazing vacation. Not only is this an amazing chance to travel into space and live there for a week or two, but it is also a once in a life time opportunity. Caelum lets the people who have already traveled to all seven continents get the full experience, and travel to a place “out of this world”. This…

Many things come to mind when total world devastation is thought of, deforestation, abandonment, and little food. Though no one has really seen any such thing, yet it’s possible that’s the road human population is leading our beautiful earth down. With a career going into wildlife biology scientist cross many obstacles. Pollution being the biggest threat to our wildlife. There are many types of pollution, for example, plastic debris, noise, and acid rain. Some of the ways to stop polluting are…

The most important memory of Disc Golf for myself is the first time I had experienced a round with my brother Dylan. Growing up as a child I had always admired Dylan and looked up to him as a role model. Any idea or activity that had popped into his would usually be pushed upon me for trial. He always seemed to introduce me to ravishing new music and movies but this time was different. The game was Disc Golf and when it was mentioned, my body language portrayed the excited emotions I was feeling…